Yams — Yield in Portugal
Portugal: Yams — Yield was 17,138 kg/ha in 2017. ▲ Rising
Yams — Yield in Portugal, 1961–2017
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
Portugal recorded 17,138 kg/ha for yams — yield in 2017.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 3.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, yams — yield in Portugal peaked at 17,364 kg/ha in 2015 and was at its lowest, 5,675 kg/ha, in 1989.
That places Portugal 10th out of 67 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 57 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7,970 kg/ha | 7,895 kg/ha | 8,095 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 8,704 kg/ha | 7,951 kg/ha | 10,762 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 10,065 kg/ha | 5,675 kg/ha | 12,967 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 11,138 kg/ha | 7,440 kg/ha | 16,726 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 15,767 kg/ha | 14,669 kg/ha | 16,667 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 16,941 kg/ha | 16,522 kg/ha | 17,364 kg/ha | 8 |
Countries ranked near Portugal
More agriculture & rural data for Portugal
- Agriculture share gdp 1.96 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 1.96 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.9% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.4% (2025)
- Rural population 38.5% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.6% (2025)
- Rural population 4.16 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 2.0% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 6.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 30,230 t (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is yams — yield in Portugal?
- Yams — yield in Portugal was 17,138 kg/ha in 2017, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest yams — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The highest recorded value was 17,364 kg/ha in 2015.
- What is the lowest yams — yield recorded in Portugal?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,675 kg/ha in 1989.
- How does Portugal rank for yams — yield?
- Portugal ranks 10th out of 67 countries with data for 2017.
- Is yams — yield rising or falling in Portugal?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Portugal data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Yams — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.